Which SHIPS will sail? WAS: Re: Foreshadowing of Book 6 from POA Movie / Harry & Ginny

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 --- Lynda Cordova <moosiemlo at y...> wrote:
> 
> > You are definately not.  This relationship has been
> > strongly foreshadowed since the beginning of the
> > series, as has the Harry/Ginny
> > relationship--although Harry needs a dose of being
> > talked to the way Tonks talked to Lupin. 
> 
Rebecca replied: Oh, I agree.  I'm conflicted, though.  On the one
> hand, I don't want H/G to completely overshadow the
> trio.  OTOH, I want Ginny to be significant in the
> fight.  
>  


**Marcela now:  Well, there you go.  That's the problem with a 
fourth character brought up in the trio friendship, isn't it?
I wonder why Jo didn't let us know much about Ginny in HBP, and why 
she didn't include Ginny in the trio interaction as it was 
expected... Perhaps because we won't see much of her in HP7?

At one moment, I was fearing for Ron's life, what with all those bad 
omens or imagery surrounding him... but now I'm really fearing for 
Ginny's life.

So far, Jo's record of killing characters tells me that maybe she 
didn't want the readers to know much about Ginny because she'll end 
up killing her off, :(

Jo's character killings record:

- Cedric= perfect boy, tall and handsome as ever, popular with 
girls, dating Cho, TWT champion. Killed because he was a 'spare', 
just to prove the point that the innocent die first.

- Sirius= perfect friend, handsome, sent unjustly to prison, only 
father figure to Harry, his behaviour deteriorated a bit in OoTP.  
Killed because Harry needed that death to fight Voldie's 
possession.  Interestingly, Harry had saved Sirius before.

- Dumbledore= guardian and protector of Harry, whether he was right 
or wrong is still debatable, but I think that there's no doubt that 
he loved Harry in the end.  Killed because the Hero's Journey format 
of this story called for it.  Again, Dumbledore's behaviour had been 
questioned even by Harry -not just the readers- in OoTP, and was at 
mortal peril in OoTP while dueling Tom.

James and Lily= handsome/beautiful, very smart and powerful.  Killed 
because the Hero of the story needed to be an orphan.  Harry still 
doesn't know much about them, and the only time he'd seen them in 
action was not very comforting.

Interestingly, Harry had saved Cedric's and Sirius's lives before 
they actually got killed.  Also, Harry has lost his parents, a good 
acquaintance/friend (Cedric), a surrogate father, and a 
mentor/grandfather (Dumbledore). 
If Harry needs to suffer another loss, which one do you think is 
Harry/reader more prepared for: Ginny's, whom he'd already decided 
to break up with and apparently won't get involved in Harry's 
quest?  Or Ron's/Hermione's, whom had already pledged allegiance to 
his quest and apparently will be sharing moments with him in HP7?

As a final addition to this, it always struck me as "too rushed and 
simple" when Jo had Harry accept Sirius Black as a surrogate father 
in PoA.  I mean, I understand that Harry had always dreamed of 
someone like Sirius to show up in his life and that nobody could 
surpass the Dursleys' mistreatment, but I thought that Harry was too 
quick to agree to live with Sirius.  After all, he was a perfect 
stranger and enemy before that Shack night!
In addition to this, Jo didn't take advantage of Harry spending half 
his summer in Grimmauld Place (OoTP) to get to know Sirius much, we 
the readers were a bit disappointed at the lack of interaction 
between those two. 

Don't you find this very similar to how H/G was handled?

Any thoughts?

Marcela